New National Lottery Charges

[woofgang]

folk may already know but the new £2 lottery charge starts on october 5th.

[grumpy01]

Then watch the prizes dive.

[wendilla]

Is it also £2 for the hotpicks ?

[sandyRoe]

That looks like a mistake on Camelots part. I've already stopped doing the lottery except when the Euro-lottery prize reaches mega sums.

[woofgang]

Indeed sandy, I am going to do the same.

[naomi24]

I think a lot of people will stop - or at least buy less tickets. Good. Camelot are greedy.

[alzheimer]

Lotto etc will shoot themselves in the foot by increasing the charges like that and will lose more than they gain.
I for one have played the same numbers since the very beginning - and in so doing have probably paid somebdy's wages at Lottery HQ....LOL
However I consoled myself with the belief that I was "giving to charity" with the occasional £10 back......if I was lucky!!!
When they up the costs - I will stop my monthy £25 D/D forthwith!
Many of my friends will be doing the same.
I rest my case.....!

[factor-fiction]

If you have a £25 monthly DD though can't you just reduce it to £24 and buy 12 tickets instead of 25?

[stokemaveric]

our syndicate is stopping on oct25th...and i hope millions of others do too..will serve camelot right..

[Alston]

Save up the money and buy blocks of Premium Bonds. That way you still retain your 'capital' and there is a chance of winnings.

Al.

[alzheimer]

Sorry F/F....I just don't like the idea of being ripped off and getting only half the "tickets" for my money.
I am an Aberdonian after all.....LOL

[birdwoman]

I'm keeping my subscription. The lottery has been going nearly 20 years & they've not increased the price in all that time. The payouts will be higher too e.g. £25 for 3 numbers.

It's my light at the end of the tunnel that I will win the big one one day.

[Dee Sa]

I shall only do 1 line instead of 4, the difference I will spend on the Health Lottery. I hope they come a cropper with these new prices.

[factor-fiction]

Fair enough, alzheimer. The whole lottery is a rip-off, but I can't see how this change makes things any worse for those that currently buy a few tickets. Unless the proportion paid out in prizes is changing I don't see any change.

[SlackAlice]

I shall be switching to Euromillions in October.

[Arksided]

I only have one set of numbers for Lotto but will be dropping the ones for Wednesday.

[poortony]

Does that mean the Thunderball goes up as well, I had thought the £2 charge started last month SO this idiot was buying the thunderball.
Should I go back to sleep?

[cupid04]

I wish I'd done lucky dip instead of using birthday and anniversary numbers.
Don't know which to drop. Might switch to the National Health lottery instead!

[aelmpvw]

i will buy half the tickets that i buy at the moment halving my chance of winning the jackpot. The odds will still be nearly 14 million to one so i'm not holding my breath

[poortony]

Sadly we here in Northern Ireland cannot take part in the National Health Lottery

[jake-the-peg]

I wouldn't say that poorTony

The helath Lottery is designed to profit Dicky Desmond - he of the Express, Readers wives, Asian Babes and channel 5

They give much less to charity than the national lottery


Sir Stephen Bubb of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations has described it as a "disgraceful development"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Health_Lottery#Controversy